We recently benchmarked our Cloud servers against the Atom D525 1.8GHz and the results may suprise most customers but not us. We have always been confident in the performance of our Cloud servers. We used the popular benchmarking tool Passmark to perform the tests. Note that the servers were ran for Graphics with stock onboard graphics cards and VMware tools enabled.

Test group involved the following servers:

Server 1:

Atom D525 1.8GHz

2GB RAM DDR3

80GB HDD SATA 7200RPM

Results:

Server 2:

Cloud Server

1GHz Dedicated

1GB RAM Dedicated

RAID10 SAN backed storage

Results:

Server 3:

Cloud Server

2GHz Dedicated

2GB RAM Dedicated

RAID10 SAN backed storage

Results:

Server 4:

Cloud Server

4GHz Burst Only

4GB RAM Burst Only

RAID10 SAN backed storage

Results:

Overall Results:

Atom D525

1/1 Cloud

2/2 Cloud

4/4 Burst Cloud

CPU Mark

859.7

674

1010.6

1123.8

Memory Mark

328.7

335.1

684.4

692.9

Disk Mark

910.7

682.1

786.9

989.1

PassMark Rating

510.9

431.2

673.6

780.4

As a cost effective alternative to our Atom D525 plan we recommend going with our Cloud Servers with either full dedicated resources or hybrid burst options that best suite your requirements. Our cloud servers can be configured for 100% dedicated resources, 100% burst resources or a mixture of both called Hybrid Cloud Servers.